Direct Climate Markets: the Prospects for Trading Teleconnection Risk

This dissertation provides the analysis necessary to launch the first direct climate markets. Combining statistical modeling with qualitative interviews, I build off of an innovative insurance project to show why and how to start traded markets on indexes of El Niño/La Niña. I provide statistical mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavanaugh, Grant
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2013
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/agecon_etds/16
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=agecon_etds